Money and budgeting skills are undeniably important. But financial literacy education can’t ignore the broader economic ...

We study whether higher gender equality facilitates economic growth by enabling better allocation of a valuable resource: female labor. By allocating female labor to its more productive use, we ...

From expensive Connecticut rent and high annual income to the number of impoverished residents, stark disparities and ...

Spend a few minutes browsing political commentary or scrolling social media and you will discover a seemingly settled truth: inequality in the West is soaring, the middle class is being hollowed out, ...

Neelkanth Mishra cited standard economic theory to explain the trend but said India has been able to temper its effects in ...

The combination of stagnant growth and high levels of income inequality renewed the debate about whether a more even distribution of income can spur economic activity. This paper tests for ...

How Rich Are the Superrich? A huge share of the nation’s economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per ...

Conditionality can prevent poor households from receiving cash transfers. Re-analyzing five randomized evaluations of conditional cash transfers, we find: (1) non-compliers — households that do not ...

The latest Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS) 2023/24 has painted a complex picture of Uganda's socio-economic landscape, revealing promising strides in income equality and service access, while ...

The LAC Equity Lab is a data-sharing platform featuring the latest indicators and analytics on poverty, shared prosperity, inequality, and equity in Latin America and the Caribbean. The platform ...

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